Donald Trump Now Falsely Claims He Won the Popular Vote in the 2016 Election

Fact: Clinton won the popular vote by over two million votes.

If you thought Donald Trump would lay off the tweets during the Thanksgiving break, you were wrong.

On Sunday, the president-elect took to Twitter to claim that he would have won the popular vote if people hadn't voted "illegally," despite the lack of evidence of voter fraud during the 2016 general election.

To date, Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote by more than 2 million votes, despite Trump beating her in the electoral college.

Trump also claimed that there was serious voter fraud happening nationwide, most notably in three states (California, Virginia, and New Hampshire) that Hillary Clinton won, despite numerous reports stating that widespread voter fraud isn't an issue in the U.S.

Trump's tweets come less than two days after Green Party candidate Jill Stein filed a recount petition in Wisconsin and has announced she has plans to do the same in Michigan and Pennsylvania this week, saying that there may have been counting errors due to hacking.

Democratic nominee and popular vote leader Hillary Clinton also announced that her campaign would be supporting the recount. Trump also posted several now-deleted tweets accusing Clinton of hypocrisy for being part of the recount during his Sunday posting.

There have also been claims that Donald Trump's tweets were meant to be a means of distracting people from a big story that the New York Times published over the weekend detailing Trump's business conflicts of interest around the globe, further adding to questions over whether the Republican president-elect is legally fit to lead.

It'll take several weeks for the results of the upcoming recounts to come in, and while they probably won't change anything, we don't see the post-election ugliness changing anytime soon.